Catching Up

In a typical pattern of early autumn creativity coinciding with the start of the academic year followed by the stagnant slump of daylight savings time, I abandoned my blog for a bit as my brain worked to adjust to the change of rhythm. October proved to be a very busy month for the symphony, and my evenings were booked solid with music-making and baby-raising and all sorts of non-bloggable nonsense. Joshua stopped taking naps during the day after a week-long battle of the wills in which I regret to say he trounced the parental team. By the way, the parental team has mainly consisted of myself for a good eighteen of the twenty four hours a day, the other six hours being when the young ones (young ones being my two sons and my husband) are sleeping anyways (sleeping meaning two hour stretches of lying down in between cries for favorite parental team member [myself] to assist in some fashion or other) because said husband is attempting to get tenured status at the university while also throwing down brilliant tenor sax solos nightly at various clubs withing a two hour drive of our home.

So, without further ado or excuses, here are pictures of the children on Halloween:


At left, brave young Joshua in his Gladiator suit, or as he likes to call himself, "Dragonslayer Dave".

At right, Mr. Charlie, our baby dragon who's just happy to be outside eating leaves.

I'm just happy to get the pictures up before Thanksgiving.